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TIL that despite paperwork audits indicating that working conditions in Nike’s sweatshop suppliers were steadily improving, qualitative audits found that in reality, nearly 80% of them had either worsened or stayed the same.

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9YQrB TIL despite a heart condition and arthritis that forced him to use a cane, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. led the assault on Utah Beach, becoming the only general to land with the first wave of D-Day. When his craft drifted a mile off target, he told his men, "We’ll start the war from right here!"
wJ06 TIL After President Kennedy’s autopsy, his brain and all autopsy tissues and materials dissapeared. To this day it’s unknown what happened to them.
4ogR TIL that in 2006, Florida passed Amendment 3 which states that any proposed amendment to or revision of the State Constitution requires at least 60% of votes. It passed with 57%.
R75m4 TIL that eating an Elephant Ear plant raw tasts like you have glass shards in your mouth due to calcium oxalate crystals. The leaf is, and can be cooked and eaten. Rhubarb also contains these crystals.
G7mG TIL…that Ethiopian Jews really are decendants of ancient Jews genetically and not converts…